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Show FEDERAL 15 STILL ALIVE JHD SERENE New League's Magnates Are Planning Invasions of Big Towns Next Yean NEW YORK, June 6. Well, Junetime is quite snugly ensconced in our midst and the Federal league still lives, despite all that Garry Herrmann, Ban Johnson et aJ. said would happen. The Federal league attendance lately has not been up to expectations. But oddly enough tt doesn't seem to worry the Feds much. Instead of being on the point of having their seconds flip up the sponge as a sign of defeat, they are going along serenely and building plans for next year. The Federal leaders are looking around for two or three new towns in which they will place clubs next year. It i6 a certainty cer-tainty now that they will abandon Kansas City, Pittsburg and probably Indianapolis at tlie end of the present year, but lust what towns they will invade is a question. ques-tion. The Fed?, too, are ma king plans for further raids on tlie ranks of organized base lie 11. The rumor that they have a number of stars of organized baseball pledged to sign contracts for next year seems """ell founded. It ia tlie hope of the Feds that befnre the season opens next April they will have at least fifty more organized players In their ranks, which, added to those they now have, will give their clubs a much better aspect. l' |